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Bercovici Earns Pac-12 Football Scholar-Athlete Of The Year Honors

TEMPE, Ariz. – Arizona State University redshirt senior quarterback Michael Bercovici has been named the Pac-12 Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the conference announced Tuesday.

The Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year Awards were established during the 2007-08 academic year to honor collegiate student-athletes that are standouts both academically and in their sports discipline.

Bercovici is the 30th Sun Devil to earn the Pac-12’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award and the second consecutive football student-athlete after Taylor Kelly was recognized in 2014. ASU is the first school with back-to-back football Scholar-Athletes and leads all schools in the Pac-12 with three football Scholar-Athletes as Mike Nixon also received the honor in 2009.